Wikimedia Rust developers user group/2022 report

The 2022 report for Wikimedia Rust developers user group. Please add things you worked on and/or helped with that are relevant to the group's goals.

Writing:

• MySQL connection pooling in Rust for Toolforge by Legoktm (Dec. 2022)
• Trust in Rust by Magnus Manske (Nov. 2022)
• Introducing mwseaql, a crate for MediaWiki SQL query building by Legoktm (Oct. 2022)
• Building fast Wikipedia bots in Rust by Legoktm (Jan. 2022)

Crate development:

• mediawiki 0.2.8 released
• mwapi 0.4.0, 0.4.1, 0.4.2, 0.4.3 released
• mwapi_responses 0.3.0, 0.3.1 released
• mwbot 0.4.0, 0.4.1, 0.4.2 released
• mwtitle 0.2.0, 0.2.1 released
• parse-mediawiki-sql 0.8.0, 0.9.0, 0.10.0 released
• parsoid 0.6.5, 0.7.0, 0.7.1, 0.7.2, 0.7.4 released
• toolforge 5.1.0, 5.2.0, 5.3.0, 5.4.0 released

Tool development:

• fast-ec project begins, aiming to make a fast edit counter that caches previous results (source code).
• rfa-voting-history created, allows searching a user's RfA/RfB voting history on the English Wikipedia (source code).
• wlh created, addressing a MediaWiki feature request from 2005 and Community Wishlist Survey proposal (backend source code).
• Wikipedia Featured Content Bot for posting featured content to Mastodon.
• earlywarningbot a work-in-progress tool for commenting on Gerrit patches as soon as an individual job has failed.